This release of VMware Player adds the following new features and
support.

Support for Ubuntu 12.10 as a host and guest has been added to Player
5.0.1Solaris 11 has been added to guest OS list.

Prior Releases

Known issues from
prior releases of VMware Player are described in the release notes for each release.

Resolved
Issues

The following issues are resolved in VMware Player 5.0.1.

When powering on a
virtual machine with Binary Translation on a SMEP-capable CPU, Player no longer causes the host to
reset. If you run Windows 8 hosts on IvyBridge processors, VMware strongly recommends that you
update your installation of Player.Several security vulnerabilities have been addressed,
including updating third party libraries.For host systems with more than 4GB of memory, Player
will use more of the available memory to run virtual machines.The ability to mount a .vmdk file
as a drive by right-clicking the file in File Explorer has been restored.Occasionally, certain
elements in the Windows 8 user interface were incorrectly displayed. This has been fixed.After
disconnecting certain USB devices from a virtual machine, Player would prevent devices from being
reconnected without restarting the virtual machine. A more comprehensive error handling code has
been added to prevent this problem from occurring.To improve application startup performance,
the data being collected as part of the optional User ExperienceImprovement Program will no
longer be aggregated on every launch of Player.Easy Install on the Linux version of Player now
recognize all compatible operating systems.The VMware monitor has been updated to work with
Linux kernel 3.5.Animated cursors are now displayed correctly in a virtual machine.

Known
Issues

Known issues from prior releases of VMware Player 5 also might apply to VMware Player
5.0.1.